Christoffer DeGraal
About Christoffer
Christoffer has built his career in helping people from all walks of life discover, understand and implement best practice changes. He is a coach, facilitator and musician with over 20 years experience in both personal development and group coaching, with qualifications in relational dynamics coaching.
Christoffer has experience in banking, professional services, defence, education, NHS and homelessness. Christoffer has lived experience of neurodivergence, managing long covid and supporting those seeking to destigmatise mental health. Christoffer has long been a proponent of the social model of disability, from his days creating art projects as a form of inclusive activism, touring Europe and South America. Christoffer uses creative tools to facilitate coaching conversations, as well as technology.
Christoffer believes we can all work at our best, but it sometimes requires a mind-set shift and strategies that are a close match with how we think. He also believes we need to be able to navigate and discuss the often unspoken limiting rules, behaviours and environment we may face in today’s workplace. When Christoffer is coaching at his best, he is like a terrier, friendly but rigorous about making sure people know what they are doing and why they are doing it, checking and tweaking to make sure that outcomes are making a difference.
Claire Jackson
About Claire
Claire discovered a lot about herself on the journey she took with her neurodivergent son and received her own dyslexia diagnosis later in life. She has learned to truly value and play to her strengths and, as such, is passionate about supporting neurodifferences in the workplace.
Claire values whole-person and strengths-based coaching approaches to help her clients achieve their full potential. She facilitates space for her clients to reflect, discovers new perspectives, develops strategies, builds confidence and create new opportunities. Claire has a calm, empathetic, and reflective coaching style and uses various coaching tools that complement her clients’ learning styles and development needs.
Prior to setting up her private coaching practice, Claire gained extensive experience in leadership and management roles within large and complex organisations, where coaching became core to her leadership style.
Claire Rostance
ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring (Clean Language)
About Claire
As an experienced accredited coach and NLP Practitioner, Claire is passionate about enabling people to be their best and achieve their full potential. Creating a safe space for clients to share their experiences and challenges and enabling them to find the answers. She uses a strengths-based approach empowering clients to create their own personalised strategies.
Clare Broadhurst
MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and in Coaching Psychology
About Clare
Clare is an EMCC Accredited Coach. Clare uses her knowledge from her MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology to help individuals, teams and organisations flourish.
She has a warm and flexible approach to her coaching and helps her clients uncover their strengths to build effective strategies to flourish and thrive at work and at home.
Clare has over 25 years of working in the education sector as a teacher and a senior leader. During this time Clare coached a wide variety of individuals and supported organisations to develop a coaching culture.
Clients describe Clare as a compassionate and kind coach who creates a safe space for them to think and reflect.
Claudine Charles
MSc in Human Resources Development
About Claudine
Claudine is an accredited Executive Coach and Level 4 Workplace Needs Assessor, who’s passionate about supporting people to operate at their best. She has extensive experience working with employees and leaders with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and dyscalculia, as well as those exploring their neurodivergence at work for the first time, partnering with clients to help them reflect on their strengths, challenges, and opportunities at work. She supports clients to gain insight into how they can adapt their ways of working, build on the strengths associated with their neurotype, and develop practical workplace strategies to improve their performance and wellbeing.
Claudine thrives on creating a safe space for clients to be comfortable and transparent, where they can work through any challenges or capitalise on a change or opportunity. She strongly believes that people are “response-able”, whole and creative, so she regularly partners with clients to support them in leveraging their strengths, unravelling any limiting beliefs, identifying practical workplace adjustments, as well as “holding up” and simplifying their options, resources, and possibilities. Claudine uses a range of coaching styles and methodologies with clients based on their needs, goals and preferences. As a result, clients find her warm, authentic, supportive, encouraging, open, frank and highly skilled in her area of expertise.
David Rendle
Level 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching and Mentoring
About David
David is an Association for Coaching accredited executive coach and a qualified coach supervisor. He had a long career in secondary teaching and subsequently in teacher training and school improvement.
David has coached with Genius Within for six years. He has his own coaching business and has coached teachers and other professionals, and he delivers academic coaching to younger students.
David has had a long experience of supporting neurodivergent students through his teaching and he has enhanced these skills and awareness through his coach training and subsequent CPD.
Dr Ronie Walters, CPsychol
About Dr Ronie
I’m a Chartered Coaching Psychologist (BPS), ICF accredited coach, and EMCC Senior Practitioner with a PhD in health-related behaviour change and an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology. I’ve been coaching for nine years, and I specialise in supporting neurodivergent people — including those with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and OCD — to stop fighting their brain and start working with it.
Much of my work centres on navigating systems that weren’t designed for you, building strategies that actually fit how your mind works, and finding ways to perform and feel well on your own terms. My academic grounding in health psychology and positive psychology means the practical tools I offer are rooted in real evidence.
I bring lived experience to everything I do and have personal experience of disability and neurodiversity, as well as supporting loved ones with a range of neurodiversity and mental health conditions. I am sex positive and also work with clients navigating LGBTQ+ identity, menopause, and female health, recognising these aren’t separate from how someone shows up at work — they’re woven into the whole picture.
You don’t need to fit the mould. You need a coach who understands why the mould never fit in the first place.
Dr. Azi Khatiri
Certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF ACC)
About Dr Azi
Azi is a Clean Language Coach and Facilitator who specialises in supporting neurodivergent individuals, including those with autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, ME/CFS, as well as those experiencing stress, anxiety, and menopause, to discover personalised strategies that work for their unique minds and circumstances.
Azi works with clients facing challenges such as organising, prioritising, managing competing and distracting thoughts, concentration, verbal communication, stress and anxiety management, recognising personal needs, setting boundaries, and managing workflow.
Azi’s coaching style is uniquely empowering, using Clean Language techniques that allow clients to reflect on their own experience and discover solutions that emerge from within themselves. Rather than prescribing strategies that work for others, she guides clients to uncover what will actually work for them personally. This approach is particularly effective for neurodivergent individuals who often receive well-meaning but generic advice that doesn’t fit their specific needs or circumstances.
Azi has extensive experience working with neurodivergent clients across diverse situations and challenges. Her clients achieve remarkable transformations – from avoiding overwhelming tasks to confidently managing their workload and administration, from struggling to communicate needs to successfully advocating for workplace accommodations like proper lunch breaks, and from feeling stuck to creating personalised study routines that fit their lifestyle.
As someone with lived experience of autism and chronic ME, Azi understands the daily realities of navigating the world with a different neurological makeup. However, her passion for this work stems from her ability to use Clean Language skills to help neurodivergent people live more fulfilled lives. Clients consistently report how useful their sessions have been, often leaving excited to implement their newly discovered strategies.
Dr. Jane Freeman-Hunt
About Dr. Jane
Jane has got a vast majority of experience in coaching. She has got a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Doctorate in Coaching. She is an accredited coach with the Association of Coaching and with the Association of Executive Coaching.
Jane started coaching when she was working in IT sector as a head of operations for Nokia Enterprise Architecture Team. In this role she was heading up for 200 autistic people. Jane has worked with a range of clients all the way up to board members and executives from different industries such as Health, IT, Finance, Public Sector and Consultancies. Jane herself also worked for lots of big corporate companies at a board level therefore she can relate to anyone wherever they might be on the ladder.
Jane is autistic and she has lived experience of neurodiversity in her family.
When Jane is coaching at her best she is creative, lively, chatty and engaged. She is good at coming up with new solutions using her creativity. She really enjoys making a difference and, in some cases, changing people’s lives.
Gemma Drinkall
About Gemma
Gemma’s coaching begins with the principle of “Unconditional Positive Regard”. She knows that you are an amazing individual and tailors coaching to you; what you need and wish to move forward in your working life. Gemma empowers you to learn more about yourself, enabling you to develop strategies for time management, focus, organisation and more, so that you have the confidence and self-belief to thrive in your career.
Gemma North
PhD in Social Work, MA in Social Work, and MSc in Social Research Methods
About Gemma
Gemma takes a strength based and person-centred approach to coaching. With expertise in neurodiversity and emotional wellbeing Gemma draws upon evidence-informed approaches including trauma informed practice and theories of change.
With a sensitive and creative style, Gemma also bringing humour and lightness to coaching sessions. Clients may leave feeling calmer and more clear thinking about how to progress with their goals.
Gemma has a background in social work and academia. Previous roles include lecturer, researcher, social worker, and substance misuse practitioner.
Gilda Westermann
BSc in Psychology
About Gilda
Gilda has an intensive coaching background and has worked with Genius Within for many years. In her private practice, she supports clients with Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and attention challenges to overcome their issues and unfold their talents. She brings together a wide range of coaching and mentoring skills, with mindfulness practice and experience.
Gilda has 15 years of coaching and training experience in private practice and 5 years private practice as a specialist for Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and ADHD. Understanding dyslexia and neurodiversity has long been her focus. Since joining Genius Within in 2012 she has worked with a variety of individuals from age 6 to retirement age.
Gilda is passionate about neurodiversity at work, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, ADHD, Health and well-being, organisation and prioritising.
Gudrun Stolzenburg
About Gudrun
Gudrun has around 10 years experience in coaching. She is passionate about helping clients finding their own unique ways to overcome challenges and achieve their full potential. She has worked with a diverse range of clients, both on an individual basis as well as in groups. She loves Clean Language because the deep respect it affords clients and for the amazing solutions they come up with when they are enabled to.
Gudrun’s calm approach to coaching and her sense of humour make it easy to work with her and relax into the sessions.
Gudrun has had bouts of depression and anxiety, including post-natal anxieties and has experience in how hard these periods are and how much energy it costs to work your way out of them
Gwen Tietze
About Gwen
Gwen is a coach rooted in the person-centred approach. She starts with where her clients are, adapting to their needs. She challenges and supports them to find creative solutions and build their resourcefulness, to achieve the change and growth they want.
Her work is neurodiversity-inclusive, trauma informed, anti-racist and LGBTQIA+ affirmative.
Her professional background is in the creative and cultural sector, third sector, and Higher Education. She is also a qualified integrative counsellor-coach and regularly works therapeutically with autistic clients and those with ADHD.
Gwen’s coaching approach draws on Egan’s Skilled Helper and Kline’s Thinking Environment. She is a particular fan of Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication. Gwen also coaches in German.
Hazal Seyitoglu
About Hazal
Hazal is a Coach with over five years’ experience working with adults, currently completing her ILM Level 7 qualification in Executive Coaching and Mentoring. Her background spans both educational and occupational psychology, including earlier work delivering interventions within social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) school settings.
Hazal specialises in supporting neurodivergent individuals in the workplace, as well as those navigating life and career transitions. Her approach focuses on helping clients understand how their minds work, enabling them to build lives and careers that align with and honour their natural strengths.
She has a particular passion for exploring patterns, meaning and identity within coaching. Hazal supports clients to reflect deeply, uncover their unique ways of thinking and connect with what she often describes as their “natural genius.” Her work is holistic, thoughtfully integrating factors such as cultural influences and personal context to provide a richer, more nuanced understanding of each client’s experience.
Known for her curiosity, empathy and reflective style, Hazal creates a coaching space where clients feel genuinely seen and understood. Her aim is to empower individuals and teams to move forward with clarity and confidence toward outcomes that truly matter to them.
Helen Barnes
About Helen
Helen is a skilled and compassionate coach, coach supervisor and occupational therapist whose work is grounded in academic rigour and experience from working with a diverse range of clients. She has a deep curiosity and intuition about people and believes that a client’s narrative is the best way of getting to know them; where they are in the context of their lives and where they might be thinking about going.
Helen’s experience has been rich and varied working with all grades of staff across the European Commission in Brussels as part of their internal coaching programme, and more recently with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust on a project supporting adults with mental health conditions back into work. She continues to work with the NHS Leadership Academy as well as running her own coaching and therapy company.
Helen Johnson
PhD in the Social Psychological Process of Role Transition (Making Change) and Emotionally Intelligent Support and MSc in Public Policy
About Helen
Helen is an ICF credentialised coach to PCC level with 10 years coaching experience and an extensive background in coaching neurodiversity. She also has a Diploma in Integrated Energy Techniques (tapping and NLP) and offers ICF coach training for coaches, leaders, and change-makers.
Helen coaches by finding the hidden blocks to getting exactly where you want to be. She goes deep, but also focuses on making things lighter for you, creating more ease and enjoyment in what you are doing.
Helen has a wide range of knowledge and skills to bring to the table. Helen’s experience includes coaching and training executives, as well as working extensively with neurodivergent individuals to help them leverage their strengths while addressing their challenges.
Hirra Khan
About Hirra
Hirra is a neurodiversity coach who supports individuals to better understand how they work, build confidence, and develop practical strategies that help them thrive both at work and in everyday life. Her coaching approach is warm, collaborative, and strengths-based, creating a safe space for clients to explore challenges, identify solutions, and achieve meaningful goals.
She works with a wide range of neurodivergent individuals, including those with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and anxiety-related challenges. Through coaching, Hirra helps clients develop self-awareness, improve organisation and time management, manage overwhelm, build confidence, and advocate for their needs in the workplace.
Ines Grote
About Ines
With over 20 years of experience supporting neurodivergent individuals, Ines is passionate about helping people understand how their minds work and how they can use that knowledge to thrive at work, in education, and in everyday life. She has extensive experience assisting individuals with dyslexia, ADHD, and mental health challenges, and helps to develop practical strategies to address their challenges (ie organisation, time management, stress management, exam preparation …)
Ines has run her own business for over 10 years and worked in education. She brings both real-world experience and educational expertise to her coaching.
She also enjoys co-coaching and collaborating with others to provide thoughtful, supportive guidance that helps people thrive.
Her approach is warm, honest and non-judgemental; she helps her clients build confidence and make the most of their strengths. Ines has worked with people from the private and public sectors; she is flexible and solution-oriented.
Jason Colyer
About Jason
Jason is a highly experienced personal development and workplace strategy Coach, with over 10 years’ experience with clients from all levels and market sectors. His in-depth knowledge and coaching ability delivers a real understanding of how to maximise personal opportunities and improve performance.
Jason has worked in the area of personal development, mental health and coaching for the last 14 years, where he has developed extensive experience of working with anxiety, stress, conflict and workplace performance.
His versatility has enabled him to work with a broad spectrum of clients.